I have now been nominated three times for this award by three lovely women and it’s about time I got on and did this. First of all, I would like to thank the people who nominated me: Dena Rogers, Linda Huber and Sharon Booth, all authors like me, at various stages in their writing careers and all friends I have made through social media 🙂

The rules are fairly simple.1. Thank the blogger who nominated you, linking back to their site.2. Put the Award logo on your blog.3. Answer the ten questions sent to you.4. Make up ten new questions for your nominees to answer.5. Nominate seven blogs.

As I was nominated by three different people, I’m going to be a bit cheeky and choose some questions from each person to answer 😉

From Dena:

1. How often do you read? Daily, weekly, monthly?
I read every day without fail. No day would be complete for me without some form of reading taking place. I’m currently reading ‘You Think You Know Me,’ a romantic suspense story by Clare Chase.

2. Favourite Movie?
There are so many films that I love. The one I come back to a lot though is ‘Truly, Madly, Deeply,’ with Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman, long before he was Snape and when he was a bit better looking! It makes me cry every time I watch it.

3. Since we are all authors, what’s one accomplishment you’d like to have with your writing?
I think I’ve already accomplished the main one, which was to write and self-publish my debut novel, From Here to Nashville. Now I would simply like to repeat that with increasing success many more times!

4. What’s the last picture you took with your phone?- A bit nosy, but I’m running out of interesting things to ask!
I took some lovely pictures when we went out together as a family on Mother’s Day last Sunday to an English Heritage property near us called Wrest Park.

From Linda:
5. Do you have a ‘sister’?
I don’t have a real life sister but I have three very good friends that I have known for many years and they are like sisters to me. I have also made some very special new friends online since I began writing and have met a few of them as well and they’re just as lovely in real life 🙂

6. What’s your favourite colour?
My favourite colour is blue, not for any particular reason but most of my clothes are blue! I do also have a special love for the sea.

7. What do you hope to achieve in 2015?
I really want to finish the first draft of my second book before the deadline of the end of August which is when I have to submit it to the RNA New Writers’ Scheme for reading. After that, I want to write a novella follow-up to From Here to Nashville. If I can do that this year, I will be well on my way to being an established author, I think.

From Sharon:
8. What are you most proud of?
I’m very proud of being married to my husband for 26 years this year and together for 30 by the end of the year! I’m also proud of our two daughters, who I love to bits and who drive me mad in equal measure 😉

9. Which woman in history do you most admire?
I’m sure I will think of others after I’ve written this but one woman I really admire from recent history is Maya Angelou. I think her strength of spirit was amazing and I wish I had discovered her poetry sooner than I did. I also found out recently that one of her favourite songs was ‘I Hope You Dance’ by Lee Ann Womack, which has long been one of my favourites.

10. Who would you like to go on a date with ? (Excluding current partners or spouses)
Well, that’s almost impossible to answer but if I can only pick one…Orlando Bloom! If I could pick more though…Colin Firth, Aidan Turner, Patrick Dempsey, Charles Esten. I have a bit of ‘Handsome Hunks’ thing going on 😉

Here are my questions:
1. When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?
2. What is your favourite place you have visited in your own country and abroad?
3. Do you speak any foreign languages?
4. What is your favourite food?
5. What one thing would you like to do that you have never done before?
6. What single piece of music (it can be an album) would you take to a desert island?
7. Do you have a book that you like to read over and over again?
8. Which is your favourite season of the year and why?
9. Do you have any pets?
10. What’s your favourite mode of transport?

Over to you, lovely ladies 🙂 Please don’t feel any obligation to do this if you’re too busy and apologies if you’ve already done it before.

P.S. I could have included lots of other lovely women I have come to know online but I was only supposed to choose seven! If we know each other and you’d like to do it, do let me know and I will happily nominate you 🙂

Thank you so much, Julie. I have never received a Sistership of the World Blogger Award before. It sounds awesome!
Congratulations on your award/s. Three nominations – must be lucky! I think good things come in threes. You are definitely deserving of it. I enjoyed reading your answers to the questions. I wish you success with reaching your goals re your new novel and sequel novella. I hope your journey to Nashville is exceeding your expectations. The colour blue is also may favourite; and Maya Angelou was definitely an amazing woman. I listened to her memoirs on CD. I hadn’t heard of her before her passing. What a loss that was. You are just right to be proud of your enduring marriage and two lovely daughters. Not many marriages last that long any more. Hub and I celebrated 40 years last year. That was amazing. One day at a time is all it takes. I’m glad you didn’t ask me about hunks though. I haven’t been hunting for a while. Not to say I haven’t seen some through the window!

Thanks for all your good wishes, Norah. Off to Nashville on Sunday so time to recover from my birthday first 😉 Congratulations on your wedding anniversary too – it is something to be proud of and to be thankful for. Looking through the window can be very pleasurable too though 😉

It would be lovely to meet you here one day. I hope you’ll be able to do that in the near future. We’re off to Nashville on Sunday – I only wish the States was a bit smaller and then I could pop in to see you 🙂

I’m really not all that far away (few hours drive), but it’s spring break for my children and we have plans to go to Washington DC, which unfortunately is several hours away. Safe travels and enjoy your time!

Congratulations on being nominated for the sisterhood, Julie.
I watched Truly Madly Deeply over and over in an interregnum between men. I’m not so secretly in love with Juliet Stevenson – those snotty tears were brilliant.